Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)

Sen. Olympia Snowe is considered a likely “yes” vote on climate legislation this year. She is a co-chair of the International Climate Change Taskforce, and has been reliably supportive of climate action.

Snowe has spoken emphatically in favor of a cap-and-trade system to address climate change. “There is no question the design of a cap-and-trade system must be tailor-made for the context of America’s current economic state and incorporate the views of the business community,” she said at a May hearing of the Finance Committee. “If we successfully implement a cap-and-trade system that will reduce long-term risk and provide market certainty, the economy undoubtedly will respond with ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and job expansion, while simultaneously addressing climate change, one of the greatest challenges of this century.”

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